Can someone tell me what's not working in this code snippet?

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Originally Posted by Lynne

Do you realize you don't have $target_encoding defined in the second one (like you do in the first)?

Sorry, I cut and pasted badly, but it was just above the section I pasted. I later rearranged that so it's more in the order of the working one, but it still doesn't work.

Thanks.